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The controversy over what, exactly, the “mobile bio weapons labs” we found in Iraq really are continues. The CIA came out and said they the trailers were designed for making bio weapons, now the State Department is saying not so fast. I’m inclined to believe that they’re not weapons labs, due to Occam’s Razor, if [...]

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The problem with using a fringe distribution of Linux is that you never know when someone is going to decide that it’s not quite fringe enough, and fork it. Thus, some Gentoo participants have decided to break off and create a new distribution, called Zynot. The goal is to make Gentoo more suitable for embedded [...]

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I feel obliged to post about the RIAA’s statement that it will sue “heavy music sharers.” Does this surprise anyone? They have one of their Congressional water boys talking about hax0ring your PC if you pirate copyrighted material. Filing a regular old lawsuit is hardly radical. I guess it’s a testament to my opinion [...]

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I’ve been writing an application that uses Hibernate as a persistence layer instead of just writing SQL statements myself. Hibernate itself has been a complete success. The query language is easy to pick up if you already know SQL, and it really does save a lot of labor. As part of that process, I [...]

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There have been some strange synergies in my RSS reader lately. For example, it’s interesting to think about this article (courtesy of Tim Bray) in relation this article (courtesy of Patrick Nielsen Hayden).

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The New York Times will be further embarrassed now that officers from the military unit in which Judith Miller was embedded are talking to the press. Not only was Miller publishing dubious rumors about Iraq’s weapons on the front page of the Times, but Howard Kurtz reports that she was playing a much more active [...]

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Brad DeLong wrote an eloquent response to Andrew Sullivan’s suggestion that an all-white elite university would be perfectly OK. My thoughts on affirmative action are relatively complicated and in reality probably somewhat muddled. On one hand, I am a big believer in rewarding people based on their deeds rather than on their identity, but [...]

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If you’re a Struts developer, check out StrutsTestCase. It’s a JUnit add-in for testing web applications built with Struts, and looks really cool.

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Amazon is now making it official that they’re a software company.

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Yole is hanging up his spurs in terms of Syndirella development because he’s got a cool new job at IntelliJ Labs. This certainly seems to bode well for IntelliJ’s new line of .NET products that’s supposed to be in development, and not so well for Syndirella. I’m still hanging my hopes on FeedDemon as my [...]

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